Portia Seddon

Portia Seddon teaches Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she is completing her Master’s thesis in Cultural Anthropology. She is a founding member of Critical Studies in Expressive Culture, a research collective and discussion network centered on aesthetics, radical politics, and critical social theory. Her research interests include digital music practices, Marxist politics, and urban soundscapes.

Within the past decade, African-, Latin American-, and Caribbean-centered popular music weblogs have emerged as complex mediated spaces of cultural debate and transformation. // Notes on the Ethnography of Mediated Music.